Ukraine released new footage of the attack on a shopping mall in the city of (30) yesterday. Kremenchuk. Store surveillance cameras show civilians shopping and looking at merchandise seconds before a Russian missile hit the store on Sunday.

At least 20 people were killed and 59 injured in the attack. According to the Ukrainian Air Force, the mall is visited quite often and was hit by long-range Tu-22 missiles from Russia’s Kursk region.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy accused Russia of deliberately targeting civilians in an attack in Kremenchuk, central Ukraine, far from the front line. He described it as “one of the toughest terrorist attacks in European history”.

UN spokesman Stéphane described the attack as “utterly disgusting”. dujarric. US President Joe Biden described the bombing as “brutal”, while the G7 called it a “war crime”.

Russia denies the attack; Ukraine and civilians competition version

Russia said it attacked an arms depot in Kremenchuk and triggered blasts that set the shopping mall on fire. Images released by the Ukrainian government contradict this statement.

In a statement made by the Russian army, it was stated that the shopping center was not operating at the time of the fire.

Ukraine opposed the Russian government, claiming that “There is no warehouse with military equipment at the Kremenchuk road vehicle factory”.

In the occupants’ logic, the danger is supermarket shelves and even asphalt mixing plants. All evidence is now carefully documented.
Head of the Security Service of Ukraine Ivan Bakanov

The Russian version is also being questioned by civilians who were in the mall at the time of the attack. Ludmyla Mykhailets, 43, who was shopping with her husband at the time of the explosion, threw herself into the air.

“I flew upside down and shrapnel hit my body. Everything was falling apart,” he said at a nearby public hospital where he was being treated.

“It was hell,” said 45-year-old husband Mykola as blood dripped from the bandage around her head.

*With information from Reuters